hitting the high notes for a Barbershop Quartet

[mojotrout]

HI fellas. I was out comparing signal responses of the 705 and the Tesoro Silver uMax yesterday on an old curb strip in town. It is a pretty trashy area but Ive pulled many wheaties out of it and wanted to see how each detector sounded on moderately deep (4-6") pennies. I found a few wheaties (1934-1942) at 3-6" and then came across a strong, high 42. It sounded pretty shallow so was expecting a clad quarter.
Well,it was shallow -- only about 1-2 inches -- but it wasn't clad.

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This is only my second Barber coin, only my second silver quarter, and my first 19Th century silver in the 8 months Ive been at this great hobby. It seemed crazy it was only at 1 1/2 ". I noticed a small nick at around 6 o'clock on the heads side of it that wasn't from me. Although this could have come from it being dropped a long time ago, it occurred to me that I was right next to one of the oldest parks in town (early 1900's). It would make sense for this coin to be so shallow if, say, a detectorist back in the 80's found it in the park, nicked it with his/her trowel while recovering it, and then subsequently lost it while heading home or continuing the hunt. What a bummer that would have been. I can imagine the person being as happy as I was to find such a coin, only to have lost it before sharing it with friends and family.

Whatever the reason, this sucker now has a new home in my pocket. Let's see how long it takes for it to be lost again.

In addition to the coins, I found a realty small and old (7 ' down!) silver ring and a trade token that is unreadable on one side and says "Do Drop In" and "Franklin and Smith" on the other. Since I was using both detectors, I'm gonna post this on the Tesoro forum too. Hope that doesn't break any forum rules...thanks for checking these out. It was a great day!

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[Old Longhair]

Congrats on the finds!
OK, we know which machine found the Barber, but we don't know which found the other keepers. Gonna spill?

 

[mojotrout]

Hi LH, To be honest, every target was initially located with the 705. I then used the Silver uMax to see if it could get a good signal on the target. The Tesoro was choppy on a few of the wheaties, couldnt get around the iron on one of them (no signal with iron disc-ed out), couldnt pick up two of the deeper ones, but faint but repeatable on the ring at 7".

The Silver didnt have the clean signal at depth that the 705 did, but I didnt expect it would. Its not meant to be in the same class as the 705 in that department. It did pretty well at separation but again, not quite as well as the XTerra. I love my Silver but I can really see the potential this 705 has. Its going to be real fun learning this machine.

 

[Old Longhair]

Pretty much the answer that I expected.
I had a Silver Sabre Plus for a while, and it was OK for what it was, but what it was was too basic by today's standard IMO. The digital age has brought some great capabilities to the affordable range of consumer electronics.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Congrat's on the nice Barber and your first 1800's coin. I hope you find alot more of them.

 

[mojotrout]

Thanks Mark! I do too!

 

[7centsworth]

That is a nice barber too .

 

[hotrod53]

Mojotrout... I'm a former Tesoro fanatic now converted to Minelab.... and not looking back. I had a Toltec 100 and I still have a Cutlass II that I use on the beach for vacation. My brother Mapper65 almost had to pry my hands off of the Toltec having had it for years and found many a good find with it. i debated on going with Tesoro before I bought my 705, mostly of habit and lifetime warranty. Looking back now, going to Minelab was a good decision.

My brother in law just bought an ETrac, I'm hoping that I can still keep up with him or there will be a $1500 investment coming my way!

 

[mojotrout]

Mojotrout... I'm a former Tesoro fanatic now converted to Minelab.... and not looking back. I had a Toltec 100 and I still have a Cutlass II that I use on the beach for vacation. My brother Mapper65 almost had to pry my hands off of the Toltec having had it for years and found many a good find with it. i debated on going with Tesoro before I bought my 705, mostly of habit and lifetime warranty. Looking back now, going to Minelab was a good decision.

My brother in law just bought an ETrac, I'm hoping that I can still keep up with him or there will be a $1500 investment coming my way!

Hey hotrod, Im really enjoying the XTerra, its a lot of fun to learn a new detector, especially one as nuanced as the 705. However, Im still a big Tesoro fan too, and my next machine will be another one for sure.

Regarding the E-trac -- Ive seen guys do really cool things with that machine in my town, but they seem to do it slooooowly. It is definately a different pace than Im use to.

 

[Jack Beam]

Congrats on the silver and the first of many pre 1900 silver coins!